EMAT621Summer2009 - Literacy Integration

THEME: SUMMER

GROUP MEMBERS Shawnell Barlow
Nathalie Coward
Ingri Del Real
Kimberly Hollis
Becki Kelly
Emily Malanoski
AnnMarie Ratka
Gail Shropshire

FOCUS TOPIC: LITERACY INTEGRATION

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Ways to incorporate vocabulary work in your unit:

SCIENCE VOCABULARY FOCUS STRATEGIES:

Key Vocabulary: summer, sunny, mates, axis, rotates, temperature, season, warm, sun, Earth, hot, thermometer, shade, Farenheit, Celsius, ocean, humid, weather, degrees, water cycle, melting, frozen BONUS WORDS: swim, picnic, ice cream
Synonyms and Antonyms of summer words
Summer Science charades
Dress for summer time dolls: paper cut-out dolls that studnets can dress and label with key vocabulary words
Vocabulary matching memory game
Word Wall game Trivia ex: I'm looking for a word that measures how hot or cold something is..."
Use key vocabulary words to write in their summer science journals
Create a song about summer using at least 5 vocabulary words in a cooperative group
Choose an MI to demonstrate summer
Summer science experiments that make use of key vocabulary words
Semantic Impressions Activity
Expert Cards Activities

ResourcesGeorgia Science Textbook (2008) Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company.
Schuette, S.L. (2007). Let's look at summer. Capstone Press. Mankato, Minnesota.
Richek, M. (2005). Words are wonderful: Interactive, time-efficient strategies to teach meaning vocabulary. The Reading Teacher 58(5), 414-423.

Ways to incorporate reading and children's literature in your unit:

Social Studies Literacy Incorporation Strategies:

Social studies related reader's theatre
Research Book center with related themed books
Create a book about someone or an important event
Play a Jeopardy game where students have to read and understand key vocabulary to answer questions
Create take home book packs with activities to incorporate parents in the learning process
Library list for students to pick up at their local library

Resources:
http://www.aaronshep.com/rt/ RTE23.html
http://www. timelessteacherstuff.com/ readerstheater/America.pdf
http://www. timelessteacherstuff.com/ OtherLanguageMaterials/ PaulRevereRide.html http://poetry.eserver.org/ paul-revere.html

Ways to incorporate writing in your unit:

Using Literature in the Mathematics Classroom (emphasizing writing)

Understanding and writing fractions
Counting change
Writing number sentences
Writing word problems
Writing recipes
Graphing
Using tally marks for survey taste test
Writing number sequences
Writing inequality sentencesUnderstanding and writing fractions

Resources:
Murphy, S. (1998). Lemonade for sale. New York: Harper Collins.
Other Resources:
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Ryan, P.M. (2003). Hello Ocean. Watertown, MA: Charlesbridge Publishing.
Lies B. (2006). Bats at the Beach. Boston: Houghton Mifflin.